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Iris

Go web framework for building web applications and APIs, with routing, middleware, MVC controllers and template engines.

Iris is a web framework for Go. A project adds it with go get and writes its routes and handlers in Go code. Views can be rendered with the HTML, Django or Pug template engines, which are registered on the application.

An Iris app runs as a Go program that listens on a port, so a deployed app is a long-running process rather than a set of static files. The documentation covers the getting-started steps and the view engines. The maintainer is Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos, and the company Hellenic Development created and maintains the framework.

Worth knowing

The README announces a major version 14 on a new import path and says version 12 keeps working and keeps getting fixes.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos4
Maintained by
Individual
Owned by
Hellenic Development5
First release
20165

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on9
Install with
go get github.com/kataras/iris/v12@latest7

Releases

Current major version
1211
Last release
2024-04-2411

Adoption

GitHub stars
25,5582
Contributors
10412

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-26: links
    www.iris-go.com/
  2. 2026-10-26: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/kataras/iris
  3. 2026-10-26: links
    www.iris-go.com/docs/
  4. 2026-10-26: Maintainer, License
    raw.githubusercontent.com/kataras/iris/main/LICENSE
  5. 2026-10-26: Owned by, License, First release
    www.iris-go.com/about.html
  6. 2026-10-26: Runtime, Categories
    raw.githubusercontent.com/kataras/iris/main/README.md
  7. 2026-10-26: Install with
    www.iris-go.com/docs/getting-started/installation
  8. 2026-10-26: Templating
    www.iris-go.com/docs/view/view
  9. 2026-10-26: Runs as
    www.iris-go.com/docs/getting-started/quick-start
  10. 2026-10-26: Multilingual
    www.iris-go.com/docs/i18n/i18n
  11. 2026-10-26: Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/kataras/iris/releases
  12. 2026-10-26: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/kataras/iris/contributors?per_page=1

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